Denmark

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What a Cool place, but man my feet hurt!!! I have never seen extremely modern architecture right next to very old city architecture. It was a bit confusing getting around at first, being our first stop and having a strange language barrier. Ashley and I had joked about how it would only take 2 weeks before we would bump into someone we knew, it took 2 days till i ran into anouther Hobart Student and friend, a Chi Phi brother none the less. I had completely forgotten that Neil was in Denmark for the semester and Ashley was stunned when i suddenly leaped onto a strange person outside of a shop.
Christiana was... interesting... Certantly the product of "flower Children" but it could use a good community clean up day. Denmarks open container laws, or lack there of within city limits is quite nice. Its not uncommon to see people just strolling down the street with a Tuborg or a Carlsberg beer in hand. The kids were quite lively, a bit too much! And they were also model-like good looking... not just one of them, but the majority. I kind of felt short and fat compared to everyone!
We had some interesting meals in Denmark as well! of course being the first stop on the trip we were still a bit uncomfortable wodnering till we found a place to eat, so we settled for the first place with space! The street hotdog vendors served the franfurters off the bun with bread on the side, it took a second try to ask for a French hot Dog, which is inside a bagguette with ur choice of sauce. By inside the bread i mean it was literally slipped into a dug out section of a bagguette, except for about a 1/4 of it which hung out in a way only the french would think up! We avoided most traditional Danish dinners, mostly because they all involved Herring.
Some of the really interesting stores were design based, alot of interesting kitchenwares. Probally the best was a knife holder that was in the shape of a person and the knifes were stabbing it.
Tommorow morning we leave for Holland because hte flight was FAR FAR cheaper on saturday then it was on sunday!

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Photos

Driveway
What a great way to enter your home!

A Street in Copenhagen
I dont know, if you saw it, you would understand

TOILET
Always a good time for some potty humor!!! this one was by a canal.

Royal Court (yard)
We got to see the changing of the guards!! Which might not be so "cool" if it didnt happen to happen as we were just wondering by.

Guards!
I was very tempted to buy one of their fancy hats

Ashley
I was attempting to play with the Appeture setting to take good portraits... I think i figured it out

Ashley2
I was attempting to play with the Appeture setting to take good portraits... I think i figured it out

Cobblestone
Great courtyard!

Trees
We ended up in this amazingly beautiful and upscale Park by a canal

Modern
Modern, but not tacky! Bravo

Cool art
Art in the upscale Park/garden

Water Fall
Cool Water Fall Sculpture!

Danish Garden Flowers
Again, playing around with the camera, it took a few trys but even in direct sun light i figured it out!

so Danish
We saw the building that was the cover of the fodors guide! but we didnt have a camera so this one will do!

Cool Wall sculpture
Very Cool

FDR in CPH?
yea... that is FDR, we stopped for a second to look around and saw this!!!

Nice Street
A Street i wouldnt mind living on!

Nice Street 2
A Street i wouldnt mind living on!

Building
Now thats pretty cool!

SAGA QUEEN
Really funny for my Hobart friends cause thats the name of our Nasty dining hall!

Comments

[leslie]

Have A Great Time...
Love the blog

[Jimmi]

Just a small comment
Nice post. I'm glad you had a nice time in our "small town" - atleast compared to NYC.

[Jesse]

envy
I'm jealous Ryan. And that's not something that is easy to achieve or something to which I would easily admit. I've wanted to visit Copenhagen for some time now, but have heard that its prohibitively expensive. You'll have to let me know what you thought when you return.